A pewterer's yard on Mill Lane casts its first bell, a 4 cwt treble for Hollowcombe church. The loam mould is dried over a peat fire for three days.
We buy a vertical tuning lathe and stop tuning by chipping at the lip. Bells now leave the yard true to within a few cents.
Eleven rings cast in four years for towns marking their war dead. Still the busiest spell in the foundry's history.
When the family line ends, fourteen moulders and tuners buy the business between them and keep the furnace lit.
A cleaner gas furnace replaces the coke hearth. Moulds are still made from loam dug a mile up the valley.
Around forty new bells a year, plus rehanging and restoration work for towers across the south west.
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